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'''''LittleBigPlanet''''' is a video game on the [[
However, this doesn't stop the number of user-generated levels from reaching over two million as of this writing.{{when}} As [[Wikipedia]] [[wikipedia:LittleBigPlanet|puts it]], its gameplay "revolves around the player's control of small avatars, known as ''Sackboys'' or ''Sackgirls'' owing to their [[Punk Punk|Stitch Punk]] appearance, in a variety of platforming scenarios. Though the game features a set of pre-built levels for players to explore, of equal importance is the game's customizable nature, from altering the player's character and personal space, to building entirely new objects and levels, and then sharing and playing them online as part of the ''LittleBigPlanet'' community." It includes narration by [[Stephen Fry]]. That's right, ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' is now your Guide to ''this'' galaxy.
Did we tell you that there's a game on the [[
Did you also know about the upcoming{{when}} ''LittleBigPlanet 3'' for the [[PlayStation 4]]?
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* [[
* [[An Interior Designer Is You]]: In your pod, your levels, and even the main story levels if you want.
* [[Bribing Your Way to Victory]] A less observable phenomenon throughout the series and does not apply literally. However, it is worth noting that about the same weeks that notable DLC packs come out (eg Metal Gear Solid, Pirates of the Caribbean etc), a lot of levels simply containing the new content begin to surface sucking up all the ratings and fame that they can get before the said content becomes ordinary. Probably the biggest example of this was when the Pirates of the Caribbean DLC came out resulting in thousands of people spamming levels consisting of nothing but water with the occasional rocket-powered boat.
* [[Character Customization]]
* [[Downloadable Content]]: The Metal Gear expansion mentioned before also gives a Snake costume, as well as Meryl, and one of the bosses. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c-gtqZZSnw&feature=player_profilepage And as seen here,] there is downloadable content involving ''The [[Watchmen]]''.▼
** Now, there are theme packs for the PSP. Some costumes from the packs are free, however.▼
** As of 10/01/11, there is a truly massive amount of DLC, including levels, objects, stickers, costumes, and even compatibility with the Playstation Move.▼
* [[Everything Makes a Mushroom]]: Explosives of any kind create mushroom clouds in the background if you detonate enough of them.▼
* [[Everything's Better with Indexes|Everything is Better With Everything:]]
** [[Babies Make Everything Better|Like the Baby Costume in LBP2]]
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** [[Stuff Blowing Up]].
** Everything's Better with Robot rabbits, [[Precious Puppies|canines]], and hamsters.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: "The Material Changer is Exactly What It Says On The Tin. Or on the cardboard. Or the polystyrene. Or whatever else it is that you want it to say it on."▼
* [[Expansion Pack World]]: And it's [[Metal Gear Solid]] themed, to boot.▼
** Now there's also a ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' pack as well. Slightly harder than the Metal Gear Solid pack, but it's the only way to be able to use Water in your LBP1 levels.▼
** Other downloadable themes include ancient history, monsters, [[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]], [[Marvel Comics]], [[The Muppets]], and an original world made for use with the Playstation Move.▼
* [[Genre Busting]]: Try explaining this to someone who hasn't really played it. The first game is a platformer, but encourages you to build whatever kind of level you want, whether it be an actual level in the vein of Mario or just a music or set-piece showcase. The second game, however, looks to embrace this wholeheartedly, as it was marketed as a platform for games rather than a platform game. The main game showcases some unique gameplay styles, including a side-scrolling shooter that looks like a retro arcade game. The overall effect is a mashup of [[Garry's Mod|Gmod for consoles]], [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]], winks and nods toward [[Monty Python]]-style humor, and [[Zero Punctuation|sinister weaponized cuteness]].
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: There are a few winks and nods, such as [[Stephen Fry]] telling you not to smirk when he talks about making rods stiff and erect (for use in contraption-building) during a tutorial.
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** The Asylum is hippie-themed, except for Eve herself... Medicinal drugs, anyone?
** In the second level of Avalonia, when The Negativatron attacks, Avalon exclaims, "My impregnable fortress has been impregnated!"
* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: Sackboy can't really take much damage before exploding or [[Death Throws|getting thrown off]] and popping out of the last checkpoint. The only exception is fire, which causes him to get singed and hop away, hopefully toward safer ground. If he touches it twice in succession, he's dead.▼
▲* [[Downloadable Content]]: The Metal Gear expansion mentioned before also gives a Snake costume, as well as Meryl, and one of the bosses. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c-gtqZZSnw&feature=player_profilepage And as seen here,] there is downloadable content involving ''The [[Watchmen]]''.
▲** Now, there are theme packs for the PSP. Some costumes from the packs are free, however.
▲** As of 10/01/11, there is a truly massive amount of DLC, including levels, objects, stickers, costumes, and even compatibility with the Playstation Move.
▲* [[Everything Makes a Mushroom]]: Explosives of any kind create mushroom clouds in the background if you detonate enough of them.
▲* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: "The Material Changer is Exactly What It Says On The Tin. Or on the cardboard. Or the polystyrene. Or whatever else it is that you want it to say it on."
▲* [[Expansion Pack World]]: And it's [[Metal Gear Solid]] themed, to boot.
▲** Now there's also a ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' pack as well. Slightly harder than the Metal Gear Solid pack, but it's the only way to be able to use Water in your LBP1 levels.
▲** Other downloadable themes include ancient history, monsters, [[Toy Story]], [[Marvel Comics]], [[The Muppets]], and an original world made for use with the Playstation Move.
* [[Kids Prefer Boxes]]: Your base, The Pod, is a rocket ship made out of a cardboard box.
* [[Level Editor]]: Said to be ''better'' than the tools Media Molecule uses.
▲* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: Sackboy can't really take much damage before exploding or [[Death Throws|getting thrown off]] and popping out of the last checkpoint. The only exception is fire, which causes him to get singed and hop away, hopefully toward safer ground. If he touches it twice in succession, he's dead.
** However, in ''Little Big Planet 2'', you can pilot contraptions with health meters. Some player-created levels also give a health meter to Sackboy himself.
* [[Oxygen Meter]]: If a Sackperson stays underwater for 30 seconds without resurfacing or reaching a Bubble Maker, they pop from lack of air.
* [[Please Subscribe to Our Channel]]: Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find a genuine comment that's actually about a level, and not begging you to play/heart the commenter's own levels. Note- This is nigh impossible. {{spoiler|Even Liquid Ocelot resorts to spamming to garner hearts- see below}}
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* [[Stealth Pun]]: Sackboy's default look is stated to be made of hessian material. It's also worth mentioning a few of his outfit sets are themed around various types of [[wikipedia:Hessian (soldiers)|soldiers.]]
* [[Sturgeon's Law]]: As expected of anything soliciting content from the general public, a lot of the user-created levels are ... not so good. However, with ''over 3 million'' levels to pick from, that leaves a good 300,000 that range from pretty good to fantastically awesome.
* [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]]: Determining a
* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: More so in the sequel. LBP1 featured unlockable side levels containing various mini-games, but they were completely optional. In LBP2, about halfway through the main storyline (that is, ignoring the side levels), conventional platforming starts taking a backseat to top-down and side-scrolling shmups and other arcade genres.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: You can slap other players, or drag them around.
* [[Wide Open Sandbox]]: The Moon. A lot of level slots, and so much items (if you're an item bubble collector, or if you were going for the Booty Master trophy).
* [[Advancing Boss of Doom]]: Skulldozer is the "run away until you reach the end" type.
* [[Big Boo's Haunt]]: The third chapter of the Gardens, Skate to Victory, has one of these.
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* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: Unfortunately plagued with many of these:
** Least severe was the terrible, horrible server lag that was apparent for the first few months of the game, rendering it nearly unplayable online, despite the online connectivity being one of the main points of the game.
** Many players encountered a bug called the "Wheel of Death" that, when making a large grab-able material spin extremely fast in the level editor and grabbing on, they would no longer be able to respawn, stuck on some sort of infinite pseudo-death loop. Returning to the pod (main menu, basically) continued this, and this persisted ''even upon resetting the game,'' rendering the game completely unplayable for those affected. The only way to undo this was to delete the entire save data.
** Still prancing around is the bug that makes your file completely unable to save new data (and gives no error indicating this. The game only autosaves), apparently brought on by having too many custom/community objects, and it's supposedly fixable by deleting all of that and avoiding community objects like the plague. Obviously nobody wants to do this either.
** In the second level, Get A Grip, items can disappear with the only known cure being to start a new file and hope your luck hasn't run out. The "Moody Cloud" sticker is one of the more common disappearances.
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* [[Wutai]]: The Islands.
* [[The Ace]]: Avalon Centrifuge.
* [[Advancing Boss of Doom]]: Copernicus the Guard Turkey, of the "run away until you win" type.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Dr. Higginbotham. Even when cured of his mental illness, he is still pretty out there.
* [[Colossus Climb]]: {{spoiler|The giant robot near the end of the game.}}
* [[Crapsack World]]: The Factory of a Better Tomorrow, since that {{spoiler|the Negativitron destroyed it and made the only inhabits Clive and the brainwashed
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: It's still pretty adorable, but you're fighting an [[Eldritch Abomination]] with elements of [[The Corruption]] this time around, and the game actually has a plot.
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: In Pipe Dreams, there is a symbol of a fist, where you are supposed to make the index and ring fingers rise to create the hand that rockers use. If you make the middle finger rise, a "Denied" box appears over the finger before it fully rises.
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** [[The Sixth Ranger]]: Dr. Higginbotham.
*** Technically, Sackboy counts as a Sixth Ranger for the Alliance, since Sackboy's the last to join.
* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: Two bugs in fact, one is the "Spawn-pop Cancer", caused by resizing your Sackperson which causes your character to no longer spawn in levels, figuratively breaking the game. The second is called the "New Era" and also causes your Sackperson to not spawn, but can be contracted like a virus from a level that was created by a person infected with the bug.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: "Ready Sack Thing? Unleash [[Hellfire|heckfire]] in the name of The Alliance!"
* [[Glorious Mother Russia]] / [[Commie Land]]: The Factory of a Better Tomorrow contains many Soviet Russian elements, such as the red fists and "comrade!" signs.
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* [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose]]: {{spoiler|One boss fight has you fighting one of the Negativitron's ships while protecting Avalon's ship, and keeping it from taking too much damage. However, once you deal the final blow, the enemy ship shoots a missile and brings down Avalon's ship anyway.}}
* [[The Heartless]]: {{spoiler|The Negativitron, or so it claims.}}
* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: The Negativitron.
* [[Locomotive Level]]: "Runaway Train"
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: The Ducker. {{spoiler|It's an option that lowers background noise when a Magic Mouth is speaking.}}
* [[Not So Different]]: {{spoiler|The Negativitron tries mixing this with [[Tomato in the Mirror]], claiming that he IS the protagonists... or at least their vices, anyway. This is never elaborated on, though, nor [[
* [[Old Save Bonus]]: Pretty much everything you made or unlocked in the first game is present in the second, and can be added onto your LBP2 profile
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: The Negativitron.
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* [[Super Not-Drowning Skills]]: The "Scuba Gear" powerup. Made safer by the fact that you can't take it off while you're in water, unless you touch an Enhancement Remover. Of course, it doesn't protect you from other underwater hazards...
* [[Tree-Top Town]]: Eve's Asylum for the Mentally Alternative, although it's more of an insane asylum than a town.
* [[Video Game Caring Potential|Video Game Caring]] / [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|Cruelty Potential]]: The
* [[Womb Level]]: One of the levels has you shrunk down and entered into a character's body in order to fight a boss inside his brain. [[Nightmare Fuel|You have been warned.]]
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